The Essence Of Yasiel Puig, Captured In One Play

Summary of 5 articles · Updated Apr 17, 2014

How you feel about Yasiel Puig probably depends on which is more important to you: missing the catch that every player should make or making the catch that only a few players will make. More interesting is the fact that Puig made the extraordinary catch o… (more)n the very next play. Puig has never talked about his defection, other than to once say there would be a movie based on it someday. According to the reports, Puig owes a Miami businessman and small-time criminal 20 percent of all his baseball earnings after the man orchestrated his escape to Mexico's eastern coast with the help of a Mexican drug cartel. According to Despaigne's account, the future Dodgers right fielder was in physical danger numerous times diving into dark waters to evade Cuban authorities, hiking through crocodile-infested mangrove swamps, and being held captive on an island near Cancun, Mexico.

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Yasiel Puig has received threats from the human traffickers who orchestrated his 2012 defection from Cuba to Mexico, according to an ESPN The Magazine investigation, which uncovers new details about Puig's harrowing escape from the island.